Time stands still - Yvonne Nimar

Entering halls and salons with a rich and multifaceted history, such as those at Läckö Castle, arouses curiosity about the place and the people who once shaped it. Each room bears traces of the hands, voices and lives that once shaped the place. This charged presence awakens a desire to create in harmony with what has been - and with what is still going on.

The Lund University Library holds the preserved correspondence of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie. The writing contains a fragment of the reality that surrounded him. When the letters are reread, new thoughts arise - a new history, a new reality - even though the man is no longer present. The texts become reminiscences of what once was, both through the form of the writing and its content. They engage in dialogue with the sculptures and allow a reality
transition into another.

The magnificent halls of Läckö Castle bear witness to encounters between different materials, which have been joined together and used for centuries. These encounters are not only about construction, but also about communication, about the dialogue between the properties of the materials. In the same way, different
materials in the sculptures. Clay, paper, fabric, glass and stone can coexist and form new expressions. Light clay that is built from the inside out. Hard stone moulded from the outside in. Transparent glass that in a single fleeting moment is given its final body. Time, resistance and possibilities are united in a rhythm between stillness and movement.

Here, time is not linear - it rests, shifts, returns. Time stands and balances between then and now, between word and form, between the ephemeral and the permanent. In the meeting between the materials, the place and the viewer, moments of new presence arise, where history is once again given body.

Nimar's art operates in the borderland between form and landscape, between matter and poetry. By combining heavy, earthy materials with transparent and almost immaterial elements, she explores the tension between what remains and what disappears. In her work, materials are given voice: the silence of stone, the clarity of glass and the breath of clay become stories of presence, time and transformation - where the visible and the invisible are inscribed into each other.

- Yvonne Nimar